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I cant miss my annual rant about climate change as it already has me by the ass again this year. Rain rain rain, i should have been finished with my planting by the last week of april and im not even 1/2 through because of rain and mud and rain is forcast for all next week. Im losing weeks of plant growth, and seedlings and clones are outgrowing their cups..
I don't need an almanac, ive been here all of my life and in 1980, you couldnt have found a piece of irrigation equipment within an hours drive of here. Then, in the late 80's we started having some serious dry spells. By 1998, there had been several serious "dry spells and then the drought hit. It was awful and they called it the 100 year drought. Then in 99, again. In 2004, another serious drought that they callled the 500 year drought. Then in 2007, the worst drought of all. They called it the 1000 year drought. When it continued on thru 08. they stopped trying to label it, as 08 was worse than o7.
Its folowing the same pattern again this year. No rain all winter and now its been pouring for weeks. In late may, it will stop and just like last year, not another drop unitl late july, for an inch or so and then not another drop until early nov. We had 1.85 inches of rain from may 30, until Nov. 1 and that came with the remnants of a hurricane that brought a constant 30 mile an hour wind for 12 hours, with the occasional 50 mile an hour gust.. Normal rain would be 12-14"for that period.
For 2 years, Ive had plants that never saw a drop of rain from the time the first flowers appeared until the day i cut them. My crop yeild for 40 plants has dropped from an average of 6.8 oz's per plant, which i averaged for years, to an average of 1.85 ozs per plant and thats with much more work..
Now, there is nothing grown here that doesnt get irrigated. Not flowers or grass in your yard, your garden, or crops. Irrigation equipment is on every farm now.
I don't need an almanac, ive been here all of my life and in 1980, you couldnt have found a piece of irrigation equipment within an hours drive of here. Then, in the late 80's we started having some serious dry spells. By 1998, there had been several serious "dry spells and then the drought hit. It was awful and they called it the 100 year drought. Then in 99, again. In 2004, another serious drought that they callled the 500 year drought. Then in 2007, the worst drought of all. They called it the 1000 year drought. When it continued on thru 08. they stopped trying to label it, as 08 was worse than o7.
Its folowing the same pattern again this year. No rain all winter and now its been pouring for weeks. In late may, it will stop and just like last year, not another drop unitl late july, for an inch or so and then not another drop until early nov. We had 1.85 inches of rain from may 30, until Nov. 1 and that came with the remnants of a hurricane that brought a constant 30 mile an hour wind for 12 hours, with the occasional 50 mile an hour gust.. Normal rain would be 12-14"for that period.
For 2 years, Ive had plants that never saw a drop of rain from the time the first flowers appeared until the day i cut them. My crop yeild for 40 plants has dropped from an average of 6.8 oz's per plant, which i averaged for years, to an average of 1.85 ozs per plant and thats with much more work..
Now, there is nothing grown here that doesnt get irrigated. Not flowers or grass in your yard, your garden, or crops. Irrigation equipment is on every farm now.
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